What you're really paying for
Why 'design and development' is one cost, not two
The trap most Chittagong business owners fall into is hiring a designer who hands you a pretty Figma file, then scrambling for a developer to turn it into a working website. The design looks great in the mockup and breaks the moment it's coded - fonts shift, the mobile layout falls apart, the contact form was never wired to anything. Now you're paying twice and refereeing two people who blame each other. When I quote website design and development cost in Chittagong, design and build are the same line item because they're the same job done by the same hands.
That's also why a real number scares people who've only collected vague WhatsApp quotes. A 'website' can mean a 5-page company profile or a 40-page bilingual catalogue with a quote-request system - those are not the same cost and pretending they are is how projects blow up halfway. So before I name a figure I ask what the site has to actually do: how many pages, English-only or Bangla too, do you need bKash or Nagad on it, are you selling or just being found. The scope sets the tier. The tier sets the price.
The tiers are 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, and they map to real scope, not to how your office looks. Fifty thousand gets a clean, fast, mobile-first site for a focused business - a few well-built pages that load on port-city 4G and make you look legitimate. Ninety covers more pages, more structure, the kind of site a growing Agrabad trader or GEC retailer needs when buyers and overseas partners are checking you out. One-fifty is for a serious content or catalogue build with bilingual depth.
Genuinely custom work - a portal, a booking engine, heavy integrations - starts at 3,00,000 BDT, and I'll tell you plainly if that's what you need rather than padding a lower tier.
Payment is 50% to start and 50% on launch - no drip-feed of surprise charges, no holding your files hostage. And the design-approval guarantee means we don't write a line of production code until you've signed off on how it looks. You're not gambling 50% on a layout you haven't seen. That's the whole point of one operator owning both halves: the cost you agree to is the cost you pay.
See pricing in BDT